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  1. Re:ImprovAnywhere on Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube · · Score: 0

    lulz.

  2. ImprovAnywhere on Line Forms At Apple's Always-Open Manhattan Cube · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's Improv Anywhere. A friend of mine got an invite for it.

  3. Re:The Real Motorola Split in the 90s on Will Motorola Rise From the Ashes? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the split of all of their defense contracting business around 2001 as well. General Dynamics swallowed up most of it.

  4. Good luck on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good luck with that. People all around the world of all religions and beliefs need to learn that not everyone in the world will bend your views all of the time.

  5. Re:What? on How Pervasive is ISP Outbound Email Filtering? · · Score: 1
    Stupid slashot and stupid me for not pressing the preview button. That url should be

    http://someiphere
  6. Re:What? on How Pervasive is ISP Outbound Email Filtering? · · Score: 1

    Did you read the follow-on messages? He's basically saying that if he says http:/// in an email message, the message gets filtered by the SMTP server and won't ever be delivered. If he replaces that with an actual hostname, real or not, the message gets delivered just fine.

  7. Re:I bet some devs are really pissed now on First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test · · Score: 0

    Firefox is one minor-minor-minor version off
    Camino... I'll give you that one. I apparently need to upgrade.
    Safari is the latest version available for Tiger, which is the latest available version of the OS that can run on the laptop I have here.

  8. Re:I bet some devs are really pissed now on First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firefox 2.0.0.10 fails the test
    Camino 1.0.3 crashes when starting the test
    Safari 2.0.4 doesn't even get started. It says I need to enable JavaScript, which is enabled.

  9. Re:MTV itself is helping with the decline on MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry · · Score: 1

    So what you're trying to say is Real World killed the video stars?

  10. Good luck to them on New Project To End Stupidity Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope they are very successful in their efforts. That's certainly a project I'll gladly contribute to.

  11. Story? on Former EA Chicago Employee Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    Is there a story link that should have been in the summary? I see one link to an older Slashdot article and nothing else.

  12. Re:Makes you wonder ... on Apple's "Time Machine" Now For Linux... Sort Of · · Score: 1

    Most of us just dragged our important files to an external drive

  13. Does it fly? on Rocket-Powered 21-Foot Long X-Wing Actually Flies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I keep seeing this story in various places. They all say "this model actually flies." The thing is, afaict, it's only ever "flown" in simulation. I don't mean to be mean, but you can't really say an aircraft flies until it actually gets up off the ground.

  14. Newsworthy? on Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised to come into this story and not see a bunch of posts about how this isn't "real news" or "how did this make the front page?" Congrats to you guys on ten years.

  15. Re:I don't get it... on Vivendi Calls iTunes Contract Terms "Indecent" · · Score: 1

    That's just brilliant. Nice work.

  16. Science evangelism? on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you need an evangelist ministry to get people to believe your claims, it's not really science.

  17. Re:Quietly? Never! on AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Dies Quietly · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe you are making reference to Clarus, which is really totally different from Claris.

  18. Re:Make up your mind on Six Minutes of Terror - Landing Humans on Mars · · Score: 5, Informative

    The current landing setup (the one used on the rovers) involves inflating airbags around the lander, then bouncing the lander into the surface at high speeds, then eventually coming to a stop after a few bounces. This is fine when your lander is filled with robotics, but would obviously be bad when the lander is filled with people.

    The landing setup they're proposing is actually more like an air-braking system. It inflates around the lander while it's still at a high enough altitude, giving the lander a considerably larger volume. This would hopefully slow the lander as it continues its descent.

  19. Good luck with that on Adverts Coming To Xbox 360 Achievements · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One would hope this will stay restricted to sports games.

    There's money to be made in in-game advertisement, so you'll be seeing this a lot more.

  20. Re:Wired gets overly wowed by space travel on The Quest for the Car of the Future · · Score: 1

    The real question is, why is NASA wasting dime one on research and development that GM, Ford, and Chrysler should be doing?

    Because apparently GM, Ford, and Chrysler have no intentions of doing it and/or see no profitability in it?

  21. Nine months... what? on High Paying Jobs in Math and Science? · · Score: 1

    Texas teachers make $38-40K to start for nine months of work

    I love this fallacy. If you're a teacher, and you actually only work 9 months out of the year, you're clearly not doing anything at all in the school. Add grading papers, dealing with parents, after-school activities, and all the other crap that gets shoveled onto teachers lately and the actual time worked mounts pretty quickly. A typical teacher's workday is not 8 hours, but more like 10 or 11. If you had to work 11 hour days for 9 months out of year, wouldn't you be begging for a vacation?

  22. Stay home from work? on Microsoft Apologizes for Issues, Extends Halo 3 Beta · · Score: 1

    People actually stayed home from work so they could be the first people to try Halo 3? Seriously?

  23. Like days of old on Google's Academic TB Swap Project · · Score: 1

    This sounds almost like stories of scholars trading/copying books from long long ago. It's actually a somewhat interesting plan.

  24. Re:Why fight on RIAA Appeals Award of Attorneys' Fees · · Score: 1

    Yet another example of sarcasm not being translated very well over the Internet.

  25. Three recently on Have You Hit a Gaming Wall? · · Score: 1

    - The battle against Sephiroth in the first Kingdom Hearts. Yah, I know it's an optional battle but when you're trying to complete the whole game that's just impossible.
    - The large antlion in HL2: Episode 1. I tried about 5 times and just gave up. I'm glad that wasn't an expensive game.
    - The first flying mission in GTA:SA. I don't know what it is, but I simply can't do that. You can't do anything in the game after that because of the stupid agent repeatedly calling you to tell you to learn to fly.